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| The Halo Effect | |
| Posted By: Capo Rip | Date: 5/6/08 1:39 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l (bluerunner) : So maybe the Halos send out an instantaneous signal that shuts down the : bodies and minds of intelligent beings, therefore rendering them useless : to the flood. Kinda like a EMP shuts down electrical equipment, except : this pulse shuts down brain power. Yep. Firstly, the Halo Effect cannot harm infection forms. Why? We know for sure that samples of them were contained on Alpha Halo and the Threshold facility. If protection from the Halo Effect was as simple as being in Forerunner "stasis", the suicide aspect of firing the Array would be a huge dramatic mistake, not to mention the risk of numerous Flood surviving, protected in stasis. It is also clear that Infection Forms are not sentient. They can certainly be guided by a Gravemind's influence, but alone they are no more than filamentous air sacs housing a delivery system for ravenous genetic material, instinctively sniffing out large, calcium-rich biological organisms. The Halo Effect must certainly disintegrate the entire nerve system of a given creature, Flood or otherwise. Or one would have the remaining Infection forms scuttling around, reanimating the fresh corpses, Flood or otherwise. In this way, I believe this is exactly was Cortana means when she tersely explains that Halo doesn't kill the Flood, but kills its food. Just imagine all those Infection Forms, suddenly left all by themselves on ships and planets, in the silence of an otherwise empty galaxy, scuttling around unable to affect any of the recently dead, and eventually dying and rotting away like all biological matter (why should Flood be any different?) with no stasis to protect them from time?
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